Banks

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Banks is ranked 366th among boys in 2024 (899 births). Its best rank was 348th, in 2023.

Rank in 2024: #366down 18 from 2023
Births in 2024: 8990.05% of boys
Peak year: 2023941 births
Best rank: #348in 2023
Since 1883: 5,774people given the name

Babies named Banks, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

5,356 boys have been named Banks in the United States since 1883, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2023, with 941 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2023, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2021, and the 2020s alone account for 66%. It has spent 9 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 418 girls have also been given it, 7.2% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Banks
1880s	13
1890s	5
1900s	14
1910s	93
1920s	147
1930s	87
1940s	60
1950s	48
1960s	15
1970s	10
1980s	13
1990s	40
2000s	216
2010s	1,064
2020s	3,531

In 2023, its biggest year

Banks was the 348th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2023 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2023.

Names that rose and fell with Banks

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.